My Memory Lane

anyone care for a trip down memory lane?

in october of 2002, cia director george tenet sent a letter to the senate intelligence committee chair, bob graham, reporting that there was little likelihood that saddam would initiate any terrorist campaigns with any weapons he may have. however, if he did have those weapons, the probability of an attack would rise to "pretty high" if there was a US attack. of course there were no weapons so no attack took place. also note that the fbi reported concerns that a war with iraq "could trigger new domestic terrorism risks." presumably they meant something like iran. of course we all remember this because the mainstream, communist, liberal, anti-american press raised it at every opportunity they got, undermining our great and fearless cowboy. i mean, president. just thought i'd post this for nostalgic purposes. anyone else remember this great moment in american history? 13 years of saddam's bs. like trying to rebuild his country after it was devastated by economic sanctions imposed on him by the united nations, lead by the united states? you know, as punishment for using the weapons that we sold to him? yeah, what a total crock of shit. glad we got rid of him. i mean, who else were we going to target? osama bin laden or something? in the vicinity, huh? didn't hit anything? talks didnt work? decided to put this OBVIOUS ACT OF TERROR in your back pocket until you needed a justification for a pointless war, i don't know, nine years later and five years into said war? if this was such a huge concern, why didn't bush tell the american people (who he is working to and who he OUGHT to answer to) this? why was this WMD nonsense forced down our throats? i'll tell you why. because no one in their right mind is going to support a war because a missile was fired "in the vicinity of a US-UK craft patrolling the borders NEAR the no-fly zone" FOUR YEARS after it happened. err, NEAR the iraqi border, i mean. the american people have clamored for his removal? is that why support for the iraq war was very low until the ad campaign and viral marketing of wmd? the war was a mistake and you were mistaken for supporting it. the war is lost. it was lost from the start. i'd hate to tell you i told you so. but you can still redeem yourself. you can try to fix this country be rather than be an idealogue. you love this country, don't you? i hope so. but i doubt it.

Public Comments

1. I think after 13 years of Saddam's BS, and with what happened the year before (you may recall 911), they felt we could no longer put up with any of the BS coming out of the middle east or Iraq would be encouraged to follow Al Quedas lead. Saddam needed to go, and we knew the risk going in. It may surprise people to know that our military is smarter than the media paints them.
2. Sept.18th http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/09/06/bush_wmd/index_np.html
3. Well, that was certainly fun. Now let's reminisce upon another historic event: New Years Eve 1998 - A Ministry of Defence spokesman in London said: "We can confirm that Iraqi missiles were fired in the vicinity of UK and US aircraft patrolling the no-fly zone in southern Iraq early today" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1998/12/31/wirq31.html Attacking a US aircraft is an act of War....period. We had every right to remove Saddam based on this alone, and the existance (or not) of WMDs was therefore irrelevant "no one in their right mind is going to support a war because a missile was fired" You're right, it wasn't just one missile, it was dozens and dozens over many years. And that's not even the main point. The American people had been clamoring for Saddam's removal ever since Bush Sr. failed to "finish the job" in the Gulf War That is certainly one major factor I voted for Bush in 2000...the hope that we might again wage war on Saddam...I wasn't disappointed.